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To make 48 animal cookies you will need
Ingredients
| 8 1/2 | oz | Butter, softened | | 7 | oz | Sugar | | 1 | | Egg | | 2 | tablespoons | Whipping cream | | 1 | teaspoon | Baking powder | | 1/2 | teaspoons | Baking soda | | 1/2 | teaspoons | Salt | | 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla | | 12 3/4 | oz | Sifted plain flour | | | Decorations: colored sugar, | | | Raisins, chocolate | | | Sprinkles, chocolate chips | | | Animal cookie cutters |
Instructions
Preparation time: 45 minutes Chilling time: Several hours Baking time: 7
minutes
1. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar and cream well. Blend in the egg,
cream, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla. Gradually add flour
and mix well. Chill dough until firm, several hours (it is hard to roll out
otherwise).
2. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out dough on a floured board to about
1/8- inch thick. Cut into desired shapes with a flour-dipped cookie cutter.
Place on ungreased or lightly greased cookie sheet.
3. Decorate with colored sugar and chocolate sprinkles and use raisins or
chocolate chips for the eyes of the animals. Bake for 5-7 minutes or until
a little brown. Don't forget to cut the little holes if you
wish to hang on the tree. You can use a drinking straw to cut the holes, do it striaght fromt he oven.
Cool on racks.
Note: Animal cookie dough will keep several days or a week in the refrigerator if you
don't get around to cutting right away. I store the cookies in tightly
covered tins and they are very good keepers if the children don't find
them.
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